Actually, I think communism didn't work because, as Bruce Cockburn wrote not too long ago: "Greed twists eternal in the human breast."
Yep...this is what should be breaking our hearts and pushing us into action.
Wow...and I thought it was painful going through these times as a 50 year old guy who still believes in peace, love and understanding. I'm just...
The makeup bit was really a post-hippie development, I think. The "glam-rock" or "glitter-rock" era that followed the "psychedelic" era in the...
I never did the drugs, but I'll readily concede that without the psychedelics whatever that was that happened circa 1967 simply wouldn't have...
You sound like the daughter I never had...hang in there.
I get the feeling that there are a lot of people on this thread who are a lot younger than I am (I'm 50, if you must know). Being to some degree...
Hmmm...it's hard to say. I really don't believe violence can ever accomplish what needs to happen in this world. When I think of the contributions...
Well, I'm not sure the Beatles qualify as a "hippie band" except from Rubber Soul through maybe the White Album or Abbey Road, but I really love...
...but do you mean the way it is on the original release, or the way it is on the Rhino reissue with the added ocean sounds at the beginning...
It seems to me that there should be a thread somewhere around here concerning the Beach Boys' great lost psychedelic masterpiece...or Brian...
I never met a Yes album I didn't like...but the one I keep coming back to most often is Tales...
It's very hard to choose one. For me, it's becoming a tie between Are You Experienced (which has to be the greatest debut album in history) and...
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 ("The Resurrection")...my favorite music of all time. Beyond that, there's really too much to mention. I'm into a lot of...
OK, there's got to be someone out there who is a Gustav Mahler freak besides me. His symphonies were truly the psychedelic music of the late 19th...
Well...you have to understand...I only heard Piper for the first time this past year, and I really think it's wonderful. But Pepper was my...
I have all of his albums. I heard Illinoise last year at a coffee place in Nashville when I was out with a friend, and was totally distracted (in...
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This is just to introduce myself. I live in south central Tennessee, which is a very lovely rural area. I am the pastor of a small congregation...
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